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sandăla, ae, f., a very white kind of corn, Plin. 18, 7, 11, § 62 (v. l. scandala); also called scandŭla, Edict. Diocl. 27; Isid. Orig. 17, 3, 11.
scandŭla (later form scindŭla, as if from scindo), ae, f. dim. [scando], a shingle for a roof (so named from their rising, like steps, one above the other); mostly plur., Hirt. B. G. 8, 42 init.; Plin. 16, 10, 15, § 36; 16, 10, 18, § 42; Col. 8, 3, 6; Vitr. 2, 1; Isid. 19, 19, 7; Pall. 1, 22.